Massachusetts Maritime Academy dedicates Miltiadis Marinakis STEM Center

Massachusetts Maritime Academy has inaugurated the Miltiadis Marinakis STEM Center in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts. The 4,000 square meter facility was made possible through a donation from Evangelos Marinakis, founder and chairman of Capital Maritime and Trading Corp. The building is named in honor of his late father, Miltiadis Marinakis.

The center features specialized laboratories for electronics, biology, physics, chemistry, fabrication, and control systems. It serves as the academy’s first net-zero energy-ready building and is the first to be connected to a new geothermal heat loop.

Academy President Rear Admiral Francis X. McDonald noted that the facility is designed to prepare students for the evolving maritime industry. The academy is currently expanding its curriculum to include automated controls, robotics, and is in the early stages of developing a nuclear energy concentration.